The Soil Beneath the Rainforest's Canopy Is Not Excellent for Agriculture

question 69

Multiple Choice

The soil beneath the rainforest's canopy is not excellent for agriculture because as heavy rain falls on the soil, the water works its way downward, removing nutrients in a process called ____.

• A)decomposition
• B)leaching
• C)denitrification
• D)saturation
• E)evapotranspiration

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Definitions:

Hawthorne Studies

The Hawthorne Studies were a series of experiments conducted in the 1920s and 1930s that studied the effects of physical conditions on productivity and later shifted to the psychological aspects, significantly influencing the human relations movement in organizational management.